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Into God’s Presence: Prayer in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian life cannot be fully understood or experienced without first grasping the importance of prayer. Yet prayer, as it is found in the Christian scriptures, has received limited attention as a topic of study. Into God’s Presence explores the nature and use of prayer throughout the entire New Testament. Written by twelve leading biblical scholars with diverse confessional perspectives,...

self is grasped. This truth is that God’s self is to be worshiped without any hope for reward. And in Job’s confession of 42:5 (“Now my eye sees thee”) and prayer of 42:8–9, the forces of evil were rendered mute and helpless—until another Man and another day and another prayer, to the glory of the One Lord. The Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures reveal that prayer has the widest possible base in God’s dealing with the world. What is essentially at stake in prayer is knowledge of God’s
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